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The Progressive-Traditionalist War

The main weapon that progressives wield against traditionalists is their ability to break down the values that make up their worldview by challenging norms of behavior and thought, with the goal of using cultural friction to slowly replace traditional values and mores with their own.

This is a weapon that progressives have explicitly disavowed using against Islam. In Europe there are some hesitant attempts at promoting integration, but it's a fitful self-doubting effort that consists of the authorities telling everyone who listens that integration is moving along smoothly, while the No-Go Zones grow, black ghosts haunt the alleyways of major cities and the mosques go on crying Jihad from minaret loudspeakers rising above European capitals.

There is the occasional burqa ban, a nervous ban placed on the most extreme of the extreme clerics, an occasional investigation of a school that teaches that infidels are animals to be killed, and a cautious warning from some putatively conservative politician to the Muslim community that things have to change. But none of them adds up to anything.

The left, which excels at attacking traditional values, has signed a pact with Islam. Not only does it refuse to undermine Islam's religion and values, the way that it undermines those of everyone else, but it actively promotes Islamic values and traditions as morally superior to those of its own society.

The reason for this is simple strategy. The progressives of the left in each society are at war with their own traditionalists. American liberals are at war with American conservatives. European liberals are at war with European conservatives. Liberal Christians are at war with Conservative Christians and Progressive Jews are at war with Traditional Jews.

This war isn't always as overt as it was in the Soviet Union, or as it is in Cuba or Sweden. It's a quiet war marked by "artistic statements", by the school curriculum and the late-night newscast, by laws that transform public spaces into government spaces and private spaces into public spaces, and put the whole thing under government regulation whose overriding purpose is behavior modification.

Despite their many victories, the progressives have numerous disadvantages in this war. They are a minority dependent on front groups and divide-and-conquer politics. Rarely are they able to openly state their agendas and beliefs, because, if they did, they would be stoned on the spot. Instead, they have to worm their way in, presenting a false front of moderation, and slowly move their agenda through its outer stages to its inner core.

The left is up against common sense, which is just shorthand for the traditional way of thinking. And traditions exist because they are natural; right or wrong, they are organic, embedded in human nature and the way that people live their lives and draw their conclusions. Its Utopian schemes put it up against the human animal, so that the left has to ride the body politic like a bronco buster fighting to stay on a mutinous steed. Much of its rank and file doesn't know this, but its leaders and planners are well aware of how precarious their position is.

But there is also a more practical angle. Demographics. The progressives tend to have a lower birth rate than traditionalists. If values were transmitted on a generational basis, by now they would be deader than Disco. To compensate for their demographic disadvantage, the left reproduces by insinuating itself into the educational system. The Cuckoo's reproductive strategy is to plant its eggs in the nests of other birds to be raised by those birds, but the reproductive strategy of progressives is to raise someone else's young as a member of their species, while getting paid for it by the taxpayers.

This demographic disadvantage makes it vital for progressives to attack tradition, because it is also the only way that they can reproduce. Their reproductive strategy is entirely dependent on disrupting the ability of fertile groups to pass on their values to their offspring.

There are parallels in biology to this behavior. A number of species compete for territory by interfering with the reproduction of another species. The fertility limitations of liberals make it an ideological imperative to disrupt the reproduction of more traditional species.

The progressive attack on a society's values, when successful, leads to a national disintegration and a splintering into an apathetic middle and a traditionalist right. Fertility rates fall across the board, but are still fairly high in traditionalist circles. The left, facing a demographic threat, redoubles its attack on the values of the traditionalists. They are invariably painted as savage, backward, violent and a threat to society. They are depicted as abusing their children, all the better for the progressives to take away their children or closely monitor their educational practices.

Progressives may succeed in converting some traditionalist children into their own kind, but traditionalists are, especially after a generation or two of the left's cultural imperialism, much more hardened to this sort of campaign than their ancestors were. They are purposefully intolerant, unwilling to listen and contemptuous of the greater culture around them. They have also learned that if they don't insulate their children, that they will almost certainly lose them.

Human beings adapt. Sheep may always go on being eaten by wolves, but humans who are preyed upon learn defensive strategies. And offensive strategies too. As all good leftists know, revolutions produce their own reaction. A polarized society split between progressives and traditionalists is a conflict that the left cannot win without dealing with the demographic angle. And there is no way to deal with it, without either a One Child program or importing an even higher-reproducing population that is allied with the progressives.

High-reproducing groups tend to be traditional, so that the only way for the left to outmaneuver the traditionalist reaction it helped create, is by importing other traditionalists.

Islam isn't the only group on this list, but it is the leading group, especially in Europe. Its asset is that it has a high birth rate and it votes left-of-center. It may be innately traditionalist, but that doesn't matter to the Eurocrats because they don't care what Muslims do in their own communities and they don't think that it will apply to them.

The United States armed the Mujahadeen against the Soviet Union. European progressives use Muslim demographics against European traditionalists. And their American counterparts, who are less dependent on Pakistanis and Algerians to pad out their voting rolls, are beginning to get with the program.

What would be the quickest way to get a border fence between the United States and Mexico? If in the next election, 70 percent of Mexicans in America voted for the Republican Party, there would be a 100-foot-high concrete fence across the border, topped with poison-spiked barbed wire and at the foot of it, rabid dobermans prowling around. And it would be up, with the acclaim of the media, no matter who was in the White House.

Want to end Muslim immigration to the UK? Just get a stunning majority to cast their ballot for the Tories, while chanting that they support the monarchy, want lower taxes, drastic cuts to everything and an end to all global warming regs. And in a day The Guardian would be running columns denouncing Islam. And the same is true across Europe and around the world. Including Israel, where the left-wing parties are hopelessly dependent on Arab votes-- often on a pay-per-vote basis.

Progressive parties depend on Muslim votes. Their immigration policies selectively import groups that they have a high confidence rate of voting for them. Higher-reproducing alien traditionalist populations can demographically compete with or even out-reproduce native traditionalists, which helps keep the progressives in power and even seduces them with a vision of a country where they will always be in power for all time.

Slave owners in the Caribbean would release snakes to kill escaping slaves. But snakes have a mind of their own, and they don't just bite the people they are expected to bite. Soon they had taken over the island, and the plantation owners were dying of snake-bites. So they imported mongooses to kill the snakes. Then, when the mongooses proliferated and became a pest, they had to import more snakes to kill them.

The Red-Green alliance is a pact between low-fertility leftist reds and high-fertility Muslim greens. But what happens when there are so many greens that they don't need the reds anymore? What happens when they actively begin to prey on the reds, instead of only casually, as they do now?

The progressives tried to solve their demographic problem by making a pact with traditionalists from outside their culture, region and religion. They didn't mind that they were filling their cities with a feral population because their own reproduction strategy didn't depend on numerical survival, but on ideological control over the surviving population. Losing a few hundred or thousand of the natives a year to snakebites would make the rest more compliant. Chaos would strengthen the authorities and make their divide-and-conquer politics easier to implement. A feral population requires a police state and stirs up constant conflict that can be manipulated and exploited in a hundred different ways.

But what happens when the snakes take over the island?

To stave off domestic traditionalists, the left relied on an alliance with traditionalists with higher birth rates and beliefs that were much less compatible with the progressive way of life. The imported population was much less susceptible to conversion, much more violent and bound to eventually take over. And they were doing it all with the tireless aid and patronage of the progressives who had dealt with their escaped slave problem by filling Europe and America with snakes.

What kind of people, you might ask, do things like this?

The kind who run up trillions in debt and insist that they are spending their way out of a recession.

The kind who starve the peasantry and then force the survivors into collective farms, where they barely have enough food to get by... and expect a bountiful harvest.

The kind who use unions to show off their own power, stage strikes for political influence, drive the companies overseas, then unionize government workers, demand unsustainable benefits, and watch the economy implode.

The kind who shoot or imprison every independent thinker and then wonder why their society is stagnant and entirely dependent on technological and cultural leftovers from free societies.

The kind who outlaw firearms and self-defense, dismantle law enforcement, celebrate riots and then spend millions analyzing why the cities are decaying.

The kind who build windmills where there is no wind, who destroy rights to protect rights, who fight wars in the name of peace, who build international communities that are somehow supposed to possess more decency and law than its individual constituent members, and who drill holes in boats because they are more environmentally sound that way.

Evil destroys itself because it carries the seeds of its own destruction. It is not just destructive, it is also self-destructive. Evil is cunning, but it is also stupid. It is ruthless, but it is also cowardly. It loves plans, but it cannot distinguish its own fantasies from actual events. Like an unstable element, it is forever at war with the forces threatening to tear it apart, until they eventually do, but not until the damage has spread.

Evil cannot survive naturally, only unnaturally. It destroys itself, so that it cannot naturally reproduce, but instead it has to infect others. It can only survive by spreading the disease of its own instability. And it will do anything to survive, even as its attempts at survival not only doom it, but everyone around it as well.

Progressives tried to balance out the instability they created by importing alien traditionalists to battle their traditionalists. But the demographic growth of traditionalists, alien and native, leads us to two kinds of societies. The kind run by native traditionalists and the kind run by alien traditionalists. And which one it will be almost entirely depends on how much power the progressives have had and for how long. The longer the progressives have been in power, the likelier the country is to fall to alien traditionalists, who will have no mercy on them.





Comments

  1. Anonymous19/6/12

    This is so true. As I always say, usually to myself, they have to brainwash people to become like them because they do everything they can to prevent actual reproduction.

    On the bright side, they can't survive. On the not so bright side, neither can my kind. The war for earth will likely be waged between the Mexicans and the Muslims.

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  2. As a matter of fact, the first apparently left-wing'd bastard snake causing immeasurable trouble was the one in Gan-Eden! Had Adam & Hava remained conservative and not fallen for it's guise of when listening to it's progressive theory of "knowledge", we would still have been in paradise. Small wonder Islam has chosen "snake green" for colour!

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  3. Anonymous19/6/12

    This in a nutshell is the situation and landscape in the US.
    The best analogy ever written!
    I also believe that progressives know that they have been find out. Conservative traditional people have finally woken up, realising that we have been herded into an utopian paradise.
    It's now even more obvious with obama's election; with his 'contempt' towards us - it is no longer feasable to go back to sleep.
    It is also a spiritual fight between good and evil!

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  4. Anonymous19/6/12

    Kudos! Label "Important".

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  5. dave s19/6/12

    A fine piece indeed. As a grandfather I see my role as trying to counteract, with the support of my sons, the inevitable brainwashing my five, up till now, grandsons will receive. One has to be careful but it can be done. Most liberals of my generation have few if any grandchildren. Too busy with the world to breed.

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  6. Mr ED19/6/12

    Leftists drip utopian poison into any society they infect while telling the native citizens that their own supposed sins are all that is really at fault and the Libfilth offer to cleanse the society of its sins by turning the tables (so to speak) and making the successful mere slaves and the unsuccessful the heroes.

    Libfilth is as Libfilth does.

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  7. NeeNee19/6/12

    As Mark Steyn said in "America Alone," this is a numbers/demographics game. The bare minimum replacement level to keep a society viable is something like 2.6 children per couple. Thanks largely to illegal Hispanics, America's is just a little above that, I believe. Europe is 1-point.something, while Spain is at 1.0; Japan is less than one!!

    My parents were each one of eight, while they only had two living children. My sister had just one. Her screaming liberal, selfish daughter has chosen not to have children. I had three but my daughters & son each just have two.

    Meanwhile, Hispanics & Muslims have a 7-point-something replacement rate. Sultan Knish has beautifully explained this. And also how liberals troll our children in search of converts to their despicable philosophies.

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  8. I'm not a "traditionalist," but a radical for capitalism. This means being an individual who knows that free markets support free minds, and in order to have those and to fight for them, one must know that political freedom is an absolute and indispensible requirement. To me, the sanctity of the Constitution is not a matter of "tradition," but of an active and obligatory fealty to reason. It is the most remarkable and liberating document ever penned by man. Its premise is reason applied to politics. It made the United States possible. I can enjoy a "tradition" or two, but they are not the foundation of my moral code or character. As a radical for capitalism, I know that reason is the only tool men can use to survive as independent beings. The Founders recognized that fact. I know that by abandoning or derogating or demoting reason, the United States has for over a century been slipping into statism and collectivism, and that it is only reason that will allow it to recover from and oppose the secular collectivism of Obama and his generational, ideological predecessors – and Islam.

    Daniel makes some good points in this column, but it's not a primarily a battle between Progressives and "alien traditionalists" (a.k.a. Muslims), but rather between reason and anti-reason.

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  9. The liberals have chosen Islam as their "traditionalist" ally because Islam has traditionally had no rock-solid principles other than pursuing their own self-interest. How else could an obvious collection of distortions and lies like the Koran have been accepted by them?

    Nonetheless, the crocodile (or is it alligator) will still gobble up the liberals, if their own self-extinction program doesn't get them first.

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  10. Bill in AZ20/6/12

    "To compensate for their demographic disadvantage, the left reproduces by insinuating itself into the educational system." "Their reproductive strategy is entirely dependent on disrupting the ability of fertile groups to pass on their values to their offspring."

    I cannot tell you the force with which those thoughts struck me.

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  11. Utopia isn't evil, Coercion is evil. The political left's attempts to force its fake surrogates onto unwilling population is evil. Utopia is a worthy goal - when held to be a *distant* goal - the one which should be truly achieved, not faked. While distant and uncoercive, it will be a force for Good.

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  12. Your essay is spot on.

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  13. Reply to Edward,
    The identification of 'reason' is insufficient as the progessives that Daniel refers to have been invoking reason as their animating philosophy from the beginning.

    The question always comes back to 'what is truth'?

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  14. Anonymous24/6/12

    I like your articles when you discuss social values...your economic thinking is another matter...but your social values analysis belongs at the top of everybody's list

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  15. Liberals are like ideological pedophiles trolling playgrounds / classrooms for amenable target minds they can savor, abuse, and convert. They don't see children as human beings, only as subjects for their discursive enjoyment. Political correctness, a.k.a. social Marxism, exists to re-define ideals and virtues by their antithesis, much as Orwell warned. I suspect that every culture has its late civilizational version of a leftist movement instrumentally committed to destroying what generations have built up. Moreover the left is completely incapable of self-reflection or self-criticism. And like Obama, their intelligence is used to perfect strategies for destroying its internal ideological enemies. So negotiation and debate with the left is utterly pointless. Increasingly conservatives see no point in trying to change the minds of leftists. It's inevitable that we'll have to forcibly take back what the nihilists are determined to destroy. Either that or let the curtain fall. That is the main benefit coming out of the armed self-defense battle.

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  16. Anonymous30/12/13

    Progressivism is EVIL!! no matter how you cut it!

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  17. Anonymous11/9/14

    For totalitarianism to arise and flourish, every authority other than the state must be destroyed or subsumed by the state.

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  18. Please tell your colleagues to put the TPP front and centre of mind, and hammer it light of everything we know in terms of the nature of the Obama administration with gauntlets thrown down to establishment Republicans couched in the most shaming terms ever conceived. Are you watching the timing? Don't be reactive on this one. We need homepage editorials attacking the unholy, evil, un-American, totalitarian nature of this scheme, which is easily and rationally extrapolated by the nature of the people crafting it, all designed to fly under the radar just as the bombs start to explode. thanks

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  19. Anonymous26/2/16

    We need our own plan. A century long plan just as the lefties have implemented. Begin with the schools. Take them back. Retiring? Go work as a teacher. Hopefully the next president (Trump?) will dismantle the NEA and give the power back to the people. That will be the platform on which to glide into our educational institutions and bring traditional values back to our youth. Homeschooling was great for those who were homeschooled, but we have abandoned the public schools to the left in the process. That's a lot of people.

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